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In a recent statement, the government will make it simpler for people to apply for a specialist temporary work visa, the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Bowen MP, and the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Deregulation, David Bradbury MP, announced...
More and more of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) services no longer involve the physical exchange of paper forms, letters or visa labels. This reflects a government-wide move to make more services available online and make them more accessible and...
OVERSEAS workers will have more opportunities to work in the mines in Queensland as the government moves to boost its skilled migration visa availabilities. Last financial year, Queensland sponsored 212 skilled migration and business migration visas while 22,247...
Tuesday, 04 September 2012 The Gillard Government will extend tourist visas for parents of Australian citizens and permanent residents to enable them to visit their family in Australia for longer, the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Bowen MP, announced...
Doctors, dentists, nurses and engineers have dominated the first round of skilled migrants invited on the 1 August 2012 to formally apply for visas under the government’s new online SkillSelect service. Accountants, ICT analysts and programmers were also strongly...
Australian employers of overseas workers are being reminded that they must ensure their temporary sponsored workers have the same terms and conditions (pay) for the same job in the same workplace as Australian workers. 'There must be no exploitation and there are no...
Every year, the Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold - or TSMIT - is adjusted in accordance with the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures on average weekly earnings (AWE), which ensures that this threshold keeps up with fluctuations in...
The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC), Chris Bowen MP, has set new priority processing arrangements for certain skilled migration visas. These arrangements include the new skilled visa subclasses introduced in the skilled migration reforms and continue...
Previously, under proposed 1 July 2012 changes to the Permanent Employment Scheme (ENS/RSMS), Special Category (444) visas and 461 NZ family Residence visas (amongst others) were excluded from the Temporary Residence Transitional stream to ENS as this was restricted...
Two important changes were announced by DIAC this week – lowering of the pass mark for the skilled visa points test and the annual revision of the Skilled Occupation List (SOL). Both of these changes will take effect on 1 July 2012 and will only affect applications...